OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Seated luohan holding a rosary” — 56 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 14:18 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Seated luohan holding a rosary

Seated luohan holding a rosary

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像, by Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760)

Pindola Bharadvaja, the first venerable Luohan 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者像

Formerly attributed to Wu Daozi (傳)吳道子 (active ca. 710-760) · 1345

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan with a servant

Seated luohan with a servant

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin with the Rosary

The Virgin with the Rosary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan holding a fan

Seated luohan holding a fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated luohan holding a book

Seated luohan holding a book

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sheet 15 of a Drawing Book, Group of the Madonna of the Rosary, by Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804

Sheet 15 of a Drawing Book, Group of the Madonna of the Rosary

Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin seated holding a rosary in her right hand, the infant Christ on her lap holding several rosaries, in an oval frame with flowers surrounding it and a tablet with inscription at the base, by Anonymous

The Virgin seated holding a rosary in her right hand, the infant Christ on her lap holding several rosaries, in an oval frame with flowers surrounding it and a tablet with inscription at the base

Anonymous · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pietas, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Pietas

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1594–1596

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Playing Card: Queen of Diamonds

Design for a Playing Card: Queen of Diamonds

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Gerard David

The Annunciation

Gerard David · 1506

Public domainThe Met
A luohan and a demon

A luohan and a demon

Artist not stated in the record · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order, by Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio

Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order

Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio · 1459

Public domainThe Met
Luohan seated under a tree, by Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century)

Luohan seated under a tree

Formerly attributed to Wang Guan (active late 10th century) · 1368-1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō, by Utagawa Kunisada

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō

Utagawa Kunisada · ca. 1824

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paul the Hermit

Saint Paul the Hermit

Artist not stated in the record · 1613

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attainment of Perfect Knowledge (Siddha) by Mahavira's Disciple Indrabhuti Gautama: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

The Attainment of Perfect Knowledge (Siddha) by Mahavira's Disciple Indrabhuti Gautama: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Saint Dominic, by Theodor Galle, ca. 1571 - 1633

Saint Dominic

Theodor Galle, ca. 1571 - 1633 · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mahapratisara, the Buddhist Protectress

Mahapratisara, the Buddhist Protectress

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810-1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a monk, possibly Chen Nga Tshultrim Bar, extending a blessing

Portrait of a monk, possibly Chen Nga Tshultrim Bar, extending a blessing

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Standing Guanyin ("Goddess of Mercy")

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 16 matched · 16 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1768977 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 14:18 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.